Xcrypt v2.0 is Live
I should've mentioned in the last post: Xcrypt v2.0 is live! You can acquire it from unluckycricketgames.com/software.html
It's rich with features compared to the first version and it's much easier to use. Encryption is faster, the user has more options for customizing their experience, and it's streamlined. Also, by a happy accident, I made Xcrypt slimmer, even though I expected it to be a little bit bigger. If I recall correctly, it was about 20KB smaller, which may not seem like a lot in this era of HDDs that hold numerous terabytes, but when it comes to an application that runs entirely in the console without any graphics, audio, or other form of media, 20KB is a lot, considering all of that is coming from compiled code. That means less code to achieve the same thing, which means faster execution, though with modern-day processors, that difference will be impossible to notice to our eyes. What won't be impossible to notice, though, is the increase in speed due to multi-core processor support. The biggest feature of Xcrypt v2.0 and the whole reason I decided to push an update was because I wanted to add multi-core support. That means Xcrypt can take full advantage of your fancy hyperthreaded i7 processor, whereas Xcrypt used to run off one core. The speed was abysmal! There was also an uncaught bug in the original Xcrypt that wouldn't allow you to encrypt files that exceeded ~500MB in size. That problem has been solved, since Xcrypt now internally handles the process differently. You can now encrypt files of any size with Xcrypt v2.0.
Happy encrypting!
It's rich with features compared to the first version and it's much easier to use. Encryption is faster, the user has more options for customizing their experience, and it's streamlined. Also, by a happy accident, I made Xcrypt slimmer, even though I expected it to be a little bit bigger. If I recall correctly, it was about 20KB smaller, which may not seem like a lot in this era of HDDs that hold numerous terabytes, but when it comes to an application that runs entirely in the console without any graphics, audio, or other form of media, 20KB is a lot, considering all of that is coming from compiled code. That means less code to achieve the same thing, which means faster execution, though with modern-day processors, that difference will be impossible to notice to our eyes. What won't be impossible to notice, though, is the increase in speed due to multi-core processor support. The biggest feature of Xcrypt v2.0 and the whole reason I decided to push an update was because I wanted to add multi-core support. That means Xcrypt can take full advantage of your fancy hyperthreaded i7 processor, whereas Xcrypt used to run off one core. The speed was abysmal! There was also an uncaught bug in the original Xcrypt that wouldn't allow you to encrypt files that exceeded ~500MB in size. That problem has been solved, since Xcrypt now internally handles the process differently. You can now encrypt files of any size with Xcrypt v2.0.
Happy encrypting!
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